Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-15
DAKOTA NEWS.

rise.
Aberdeen has under consideration Q
proposition to establish q creamery in that
town.
The damage to Grand Forks resulting
from the recent tornado is now placed at
$15O,O0O.
Irving Bath, of Sioux Falls, has been
appointed postoffice inspector with a SALE
ary of $4,000 year.
Dakota Knights of Pythias oppose the
admission to the order of Sandwich island
ers or saloonkeepers.
The Second National bank of Grand
Forks was damaged by fire and water to
the extent of $500, lately.
The Free Trade Democrat, of Huron,
is offered for sale, the editor desiring to
enter into other business.
An excursion train of three coaches
and q baggage car left Sioux Falls the
other day for Spirit Lake.
Thirteen thousand gophers have been
killed il Hyde county this season, and yet
they do not seem to diminish.
The Winfred water supply is said TO
be getting low and the matter of sinking
an artesan we'll is being agitated.
"A street fakir sold Villas innocent an
envelope supposed to contain $50 bill
for $40, and Immediately had business in
another locality.
A Sioux Falls gill event for the
printers devil because the city directory
had Mrs. prefxed to her name when it
should have been Miss.
The reported discovery of a twelve
foot vein of coal near Durbin is said to be
bona 1ide find, and the region round
about is greatly excited.
The Saloonkeepers' union of Grand
Forks raised 500 to assist in repairing the
fair grounds, the buildings on which were
destroyed by the cyclone.
Vice. President Cakes, of the Northern
Pacific, was in Grand Forks lately, and
contributed $500 to the rebuilding of the
fair giouads at that place.
The homeopathic physicians of the
territory think they are not sufficiently
recognized in appointments to the board of
health, and will appeal to the next lcgisla-
ture.
The Sioux Falls 1ncandescent Light
company have already obtained orders for
enough lights to come up to the amount
required for starting the works in good
shape.
The old settlers of Pierre have organ
ant
Twenty six have been found who passed
the memorable winter of 1850 and 1881 in
that town.
The town of Little Muddy, on the
Missouri at the meeting of that stream and
the Minot extension of the Manitoba road,
has been rechristened, and will hereafter
be called "Williston.'
The interest in division and prohibi.
ton, both questions to be voted on this
fall, is growing, and it is plain that by
the time the vote is taken the people will
be thoroughly aroused
The election at Ludden on the ques-
ton of bonding the school district for
$4,000 for the purpose of erecting a new
school house was lotly contested, but re-
suited in favor of bonding by a majority of
16.
The Huronite has on exhibition a
stone weighing about fourteen pounds
which local scientist made the editors be-
lieve to be the petriied egg of roc, an
ancient bird said to be as large as an ele-
plant.
The Drake polishing works of Sioux
Falls, have Just completed three elegant
jasper pedestals which are to be finished
with gold bronze trimmings. They are for
Tiffany g. Co., N. Y, and are to be used
in mounting clocks.
"A man by the name of Daley, timber
man in the Caledonia mine near Sturgis,
has'laid over all previous efforts made in
lifting the bars of base bullion. Daley
lifted nine bars at one time-about 300
pounds. Charley Culp stood at the head
of the LIST, five bars.
The Eleventh infantry, which has been
stationed at Fort Sulley for twelve years
past, has received orders to pack up and
go east, and will be stationed Mt Bedloe's
AoAthuu, kouCACIt 41uIDOi anu IluLSDallGy.
The officers and men are we'll pleased
with the change.
The Territorial Editorial association
failed to make the necessary arrangements
to carry out the proposed trip to Duluth
and FROM there via the lakes TO Chicago.
and it is now proposed to hold the annual
meeting aG Sioux Falls, and be content
with mose modest excursion to some To-
cal lake.
A few nights ago party of miners at
Carbonate todE barber of that place from
his house and after giving him Il severe
beating applied q coat Of tar and feathers
to his anatomy and warned him to leave
the country forthwith or worse would fol-
low. The barber, who had the habit of
beating his wife, tool. the advice of his
visitors
The Custer City chronicle has GIN
tide information" that the B. a. NJ. sur
'ey0rs are running line up Beaver
Creek. The party has been ON that stream
or the past two weeks and Kat they hova